War Quotes
12347 quotes by 4790 authors
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Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can…
— Cotton Mather
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There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.
— Denis Diderot
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In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.
— Douglas MacArthur
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The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness.
— Samuel Johnson
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Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
— Samuel Johnson
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To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
— Samuel Johnson
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Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever…
— Edward Gibbon
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Mad, is he? Then I hope that he will bite some of my other generals!
— George III
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Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.
— George Washington
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To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.
— George Washington
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I would rather wear out than rust out.
— George Whitefield
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Show my head to the people. It is worth seeing.
— Georges Danton
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I have lived as a philosopher and die as a Christian.
— Giacomo Casanova
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Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
— Immanuel Kant
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It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the…
— James Madison
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You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
— John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher
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For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon.
— John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
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War is the trade of kings.
— John Dryden
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